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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory

Note 4 — CANTO XXXIII.

Charles Eliot Norton translation

According to a belief, which the old commentators report as commonly held by the Florentines, if a murderer could contrive within nine days of the murder to eat a sop of bread dipped in wine, above the grave of his victim, he would escape from the vengeance of the family of the murdered man.

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